He grinned. The sun was rising, painting the sky with streaks of pink and orange. He feltโ€ฆ ready. The first yard sale of the day yielded a treasure amongst the mundane. A small, stuffed bear sat, almost hidden, at the bottom of a box. Its fur was worn, and one of its button eyes was loose. He picked it up gently, a memory flooding back. A burst of something akin to joy propelled him forward, ready to bargain.

Emotion: energized

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.28 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 0.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion energized. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 energized stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the energized emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the energized vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.615
la0.594
!0.524
(!)0.432
!!0.412
Suppressed:
S-0.606
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.479
๐Ÿ˜”-0.445
๐Ÿ˜ข-0.360
ๅน-0.343